Guantanamo Bay Is Spectacularly Expensivehttp://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-guantanamo-costs-2013-5/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:34:44 -0400Adam Taylorhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51866d6eecad040e6d00003aDuh2Sun, 05 May 2013 10:32:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51866d6eecad040e6d00003a
It is all worth it inf we can avoid the costs and distruptions of another 9/11 or Marathon bombinghttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5185835c6bb3f7b121000019DaMavSat, 04 May 2013 17:53:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5185835c6bb3f7b121000019
In other words, massive savings are available in this time of sequester if we stop force feeding those who refuse to eat! Not including savings on feeding tubes, each successful detainee could mean over 200 hot breakfasts to American children, or fewer furloughed Air Traffic Controllers. Children could visit the White House again. Pull Those Tubes!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/518561db6bb3f78e6a000001JDDSat, 04 May 2013 15:30:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/518561db6bb3f78e6a000001
They should just kill all the Jihadies there, close up shop, and save alot of wasted tax money trying these guys and putting them in normal U.S. jails.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/518555c9ecad04625100000dRandyBSat, 04 May 2013 14:39:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/518555c9ecad04625100000d
Detaining jihadis would be more expensive than ordinary prison regardless where we put them.
It's going to be a high-profile operation no matter what. There needs to be security against enemy attack, which is not a problem with ordinary criminals. The detainees need to be kept away from the noise of demonstrators, which will surely be there in far greater numbers than at ordinary prisons.
Would the total still be cheaper anyway? Maybe, maybe not. It would be a hell of a lot more than the $70k you're citing for a supermax, and that's beside the fact that a supermax probably wouldn't be legal for housing these detainees anyway. Some of them are already suing because they'd much rather stay in Gitmo.